Re: [PATCH groff] tmac/hyphenex.en: add patterns for sequestrate & its derivates

[onf]

On Tue Dec 17, 2024 at 7:48 PM CET, onf wrote:
> > But groff also breaks it just fine for me.
> >
> > $ hyphen sequestration
> > se‐ques‐tra‐tion
> >
> > $ cat ~/bin/hyphen
> > [...]
>
> However, I have a file where hyphentation is setup like this:
>   .mso en.tmac
>   .de HY
>   . hy 4
>   ..
>
> (the macro HY is used after .nh to re-enable hyphenation.)
>
> ...and the word "sequestration" simply does not hyphenate.
> But when I put:
>   .hw se-ques-tra-tion
> after the above requests at the top of the document, it does.
>
> I have no idea what might cause this behavior. Running groff with
> -ww does not reveal anything hyphenation-related.

Ugh. The hyphenation settings were being overriden by another macro which
was being triggerred after the above.

Thanks for the assistance, and sorry for bothering you.

~ onf